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  1. L'estetica di Francis Bacon nello Studio dal ritratto di Innocenzo X
    #FrancisBacon #arte @cultura
    L'opera di Francis Bacon sembra nascere da una tensione continua tra attrazione e distruzione, tra il desiderio di rappresentare la realtà e quello di deformarla...
    tizianocaviglia.name/2026/05/1

  2. 𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔 - 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑶𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑶𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒔: 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑨𝒏𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒔 𝒗𝒔. 𝑴𝒂𝒏

    And when the child cannot speak for itself?

    Humanity's first global lawsuit! In this 10th-century Islamic fable, animals put mankind on trial for the crimes of the extraction economy.

    waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/wa

    #podcast #literature #arabicliterature #medievalliterature #petersinger #ursulakleguin #donnaharaway #aristotle #francisbacon #jacquesderrida #speciesism

  3. Medicine is a science which hath been more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced; the labour having been, in my judgment, rather in a circle than in progression.
    -- Francis Bacon (1610)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #FrancisBacon #Medicine

    #Photography #Panorama #MotorMill #Iowa

  4. #FrancisBacon died 400 years ago #OnThisDay

    Lord Chancellor to #JamesI, how did the favourite fall prey to the growing power of the #HouseofLords?

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  5. Schopenhauer urteilte über ihn: „Ja sogar die höchste intellektuelle Eminenz kann zusammenbestehn mit der ärgsten moralischen Verworfenheit.“ Mehr über #FrancisBacon im Artikel des Tages dwds.de/wb/Wissen%20ist%20Macht

  6. Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
    --
    Francis Bacon “The New Organon: or True Directions Concerning the Interpretation of Nature”, Library of Alexandria

    #quote #nature #francisbacon

  7. @kelvin0mql
    Lord Kelvin, if you find - in the popular imagination - such deviations from reality to be distracting, I fear you shall become so devoted to trying to explain to people that they are living in Plato's cave, that by the end of your life you shall have good units of measure that well represent reality named after you.

    Heuristic shortcuts are EVERYWHERE. Most heartbreaking (to me) is when someone is imprisoned or excommunicated or killed because they used reality (or its closest proxy) as their benchmark, and their judges (&/or police) did not. An almost-literal witch-hunt.

    #thereIsNoBoxYouInventedTheBox #platosCave #francisBacon #reality #cargoCults #witchHunt #politics #justice #science #hollywood #memes #memetics #thought #policing #police #whatWouldSirRobertPeelDo

  8. @jonmsterling I once read of someone being complemented for their ability to think outside the box, to which they replied: "there is no box", and then after further thought they added: "you invented the box".

    I write wagering that you might sympathise with such a commentator, who finds themselves explaining to their listener that they might live in, or have their thought constrained by, a box of their own making.

    In a not-wholly-dissimilar vein, I wish that I knew to whom to attribute the quote "there's no such thing as software", which I came across, I assume written by an electrical engineer, when I read for the first time of Single Event Upsets or Bit-Flips.

    As an aside I am also reminded of this short fictional story from @linuxgal techhub.social/@linuxgal/11544

    #platosCave #plato #francisBacon #maths #math #mathematics #physics #science #firstPrinciples #FPGA #electricalEngineering

  9. Medicine is a science which hath been more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced; the labour having been, in my judgment, rather in a circle than in progression.
    -- Francis Bacon (1610)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #FrancisBacon #Medicine

    #Photography #Panorama #TheMaze #Canyonlands #Utah

  10. Agatha Christie could have written the murder mystery that Bacon relates about the case of Somerset murdering Overbury by poisoning. Agatha would have known better poisons to use anyway.

    #History #FrancisBacon #Philosophy #AgathaChristie

  11. “I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.”
    - #FrancisBacon

  12. Francis Bacon, artist, is born in 63 Lower Baggot Street a couple of days before Hallowe'en in 1909; his parents live in Canning Court, Brennockstown, Co Kildare. I think the Kennedy attesting to the birth is probably Kate Olivia Kennedy, who has an obstetric hospital in No 88 in the census
    #FrancisBacon #artist #Ireland

  13. Kinda fancied reading another substantial art bio, so I sent an order out to Thalia and a few days later I'm hauling this chonker back home. 750 pages, plus another 200 or so of notes. Gor blimey!
    #FrancisBacon #biography #art

  14. #Quotes #AppropriateQuotes #FrancisBacon

    A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
    Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise. -Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (22 Jan 1561-1626)

  15. Bacon was a patron of Libraries and developed a system for cataloguing books, and after retiring from Parliament, one of his pastimes was writing. There is a theory that it was Bacon who wrote all the plays attributed to William Shakespeare.

    10 things you didn't know about Francis Bacon.

    topicaltens.blogspot.com/2025/

    #BirthAnniversary #FrancisBacon